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God’s scientific lesson for Job. William Blake. Tom McLeish, Durham University Take notice of any debate in the media and you’ll see that science and religion are, and always were, at loggerheads. Science is about evidence-based fact, religion is about … Continue reading →

Worshippers at Ash Wednesday mass. AP Photo/Alan Diaz Michael Laver, Rochester Institute of Technology This coming Wednesday many Christians will arrive at work with a black cross smudged on their foreheads; countless more will slip into a church or a … Continue reading →

Proclus (410-85 CE) was an influential Greek Neoplatonist philosopher. Born in Lycia, he moved to Athens for the remainder of his life. A lawyer by trade, Proclus came to realize that he preferred philosophy so made a study of the classics … Continue reading →

Polyphonic chant is a type of Christian devotional singing developed in the 10th century where two or more melodies or parts are sung together in a composition. As with anything new, not everyone approved of polyphony. Some believed that melodic … Continue reading →

It’s 1968 and I’m 6 years old. This time around I checked the American and Canadian charts to decide on my fav pop radio song for ’68. I don’t even know if it really is my fav song. But I … Continue reading →

The Moody Blues were important to me growing up. Was just thinking how I didn’t really mark the passsing of Ray Thomas. He was an essential component of the band, especially during its classic 70s years. Pretty sure he wrote … Continue reading →

It’s 1967 and I’m five years old. I definitely remember hearing Sgt. Pepper’s on vinyl. The song that first caught my imagination was “Lucy in the Sky.” That guitar riff at the beginning has been copied and morphed by so … Continue reading →

Boy oh boy. There are so many good tunes for the Billboard Year-End Hot 100 singles of 1966 that I really had to scratch my head over choosing just one. I am now 4 years old and remembering more songs … Continue reading →

The United States is still unsure who directed a Feb. 7 attack on U.S. and U.S.-backed forces in Syria, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said on Saturday, even as he acknowledged accounts that Russian civilian contractors were involved.

Calls for gun control laws rang out at an emotionally charged rally in Florida today as the state legislature grapples with what to do in the aftermath of Wednesday's shooting at a Parkland high school.

In the wake of the Florida school shooting, U.S. President Donald Trump is facing heat for rescinding an Obama-era rule that would have blocked guns from getting in the hands of the mentally ill. But mental health advocacy groups and the ACLU agree the rule should be scrapped.

It’s 1968 and I’m 6 years old. This time around I checked the American and Canadian charts to decide on my fav pop radio song for ’68. I don’t even know if it really is my fav song. But I … Continue reading →

The Moody Blues were important to me growing up. Was just thinking how I didn’t really mark the passsing of Ray Thomas. He was an essential component of the band, especially during its classic 70s years. Pretty sure he wrote … Continue reading →

It’s 1967 and I’m five years old. I definitely remember hearing Sgt. Pepper’s on vinyl. The song that first caught my imagination was “Lucy in the Sky.” That guitar riff at the beginning has been copied and morphed by so … Continue reading →

Boy oh boy. There are so many good tunes for the Billboard Year-End Hot 100 singles of 1966 that I really had to scratch my head over choosing just one. I am now 4 years old and remembering more songs … Continue reading →

According to several ancient Greek writers, Oedipus (Greek Oidipous: “swollen foot”) is the mythical son of Laius and king of Thebes. In taking steps to avoid a prophecy that he would kill his father and marry his mother, Oedipus unwittingly … Continue reading →

In Greek myth Oedipus was the king of Thebes who did his best to avoid a prophecy saying he would kill his father and marry his mother. Like most good tales about knowing the future, Oedipus inadvertently fulfills the prophecy … Continue reading →

Origen (185-254) was a religious scholar, intellectual and ascetic born in Alexandria who tried to synthesize Greek philosophy and Christian belief. He believed that all souls existed prior to birth, an idea condemned by the Church in the 6th century … Continue reading →

For Sigmund Freud, the object is something a subject directs energy toward in an attempt to gratify instinctual desires. Just how a person relates to the object depends on their psychological maturity. In Freudian theory the object usually refers to another … Continue reading →